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Professor: It sounds mean, but I went to see the Château de Versailles; and it struck me as something that comes from people having too much money and not enough brains. It's just big ugly buildings... There's a huge palace, and a small palace behind it for like weekends, and a small palace behind that. And Marie Antoinette wanted to pretend to be a farm maiden, so they made a fake farm for her to do that on. And you think: these people had way too much money. When you go see Versailles, you really start to understand the French Revolution. I would have cut their heads off, too.

Well, break has finally arrived; and I somehow managed to procure the 9 days off that I asked for. I get to go to St. Louis to see my boyfriend (my first time going down all semester, I'm very excited) this weekend, drive home with a friend of mine, and then I get to spend a whole week with my family. Very fun. I'm going to try and actually do some art; I haven't done anything of my own all semester and that makes me rather sad. It's going to be so strange to draw as small as I usually did; I'm probably dropping the drawing down about 10 times the scale I've become accustomed to.

Um... my anime club friends have gotten me into Hetalia (I hate myself for constantly jumping on the band wagon, but it is pretty good if you keep your tongue firmly in your cheek). I'm always a big fan of learning and doing research, so getting into something which, because of the way I like to write, demands that I do both is very enjoyable for me. Besides, I haven't been able to do anything political with the characters I typically choose; so at the moment my notebook is filled up with me having fun personifying issues. It's definitely running into issues I'm not used to, though; such as trying to balance reality with the stereotypes that the series plays with, and negating personal opinion... That and trying to capture periods such as post-9/11, pre-Iraq invasion America is kind of weird; considering the country has changed so much since then and I've become accustomed to what it is now. And trying to get a grasp on Germany in the same period, of which I have no experience... I wish it wasn't so long ago so that I could be more accurate.

Let's see, anything else... Oh yes.

So my boss has gone batshit insane for no apparent reason. He's been making a lot of horrible decisions, lying, and basically treating every employee like they're too incompetent to know how to do what they complete every single shift. Well, one night he was particularly bad, and it evidently got me so flustered that I forgot to clock out (which doesn't sound like me, but whatever).

They asked the co-worker I had closed with what happened, and she said that I had gone to put back the mop; and she assumed I had then clocked out at the same time. Their response was "we found the mop, but she didn't clock out. Is she coming back?"

I don't know why, but it made me giggle a lot. It sounds like one of those cheesy true-crime shows. "They found the mop, but the didn't find her. Dun dun duuuuuun."

Oh, and this marks about the 4th time in 2 months that various people at this store have believed me to have quit without notice. I thought I gave an impression of someone who would at least call in, rather than desert a job, but I guess not...

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